Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1924 - 1384 strani |
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... hands to be reposited in my archives at Auchinleck . An honourable and reverend friend speaking of the favourable ... hand - writing , an inscription of such high commendation , that even I , vain as I am , cannot prevail on myself to ...
... hands to be reposited in my archives at Auchinleck . An honourable and reverend friend speaking of the favourable ... hand - writing , an inscription of such high commendation , that even I , vain as I am , cannot prevail on myself to ...
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... hand crows , from an old hollow oak , Foretold the coming evil by their dismal croak . Translation of HORACE . Book I. Ode xxii . THE man , my friend , whose conscious heart With virtue's sacred ardour glows , Nor taints with death the ...
... hand crows , from an old hollow oak , Foretold the coming evil by their dismal croak . Translation of HORACE . Book I. Ode xxii . THE man , my friend , whose conscious heart With virtue's sacred ardour glows , Nor taints with death the ...
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... hand- writing the number of lines in each of two of Euripides ' Tragedies , of the Georgicks of Virgil , of the first six books of the Æneid , of Horace's Art of Poetry , of three of the books of Ovid's Metamorphosis , of some parts of ...
... hand- writing the number of lines in each of two of Euripides ' Tragedies , of the Georgicks of Virgil , of the first six books of the Æneid , of Horace's Art of Poetry , of three of the books of Ovid's Metamorphosis , of some parts of ...
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... were so excellent , that Johnson used to come and get them at second - hand from Taylor , till his 1 See Nash's History of Worcestershire , vol . i . p . 529 . 52 JOHNSON LEAVES OXFORD [ 1731 poverty being so extreme.
... were so excellent , that Johnson used to come and get them at second - hand from Taylor , till his 1 See Nash's History of Worcestershire , vol . i . p . 529 . 52 JOHNSON LEAVES OXFORD [ 1731 poverty being so extreme.
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... hand in this passage of the Dedica- tion to John Warren , Esq . of Pembrokeshire , though it is ascribed to Warren the bookseller : ' A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of ...
... hand in this passage of the Dedica- tion to John Warren , Esq . of Pembrokeshire , though it is ascribed to Warren the bookseller : ' A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of ...
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